...likely as it was the way in Smalltalk.

But nowadays we know better, those concepts...

...trying to provide a similar experience to Smalltalk, which I already knew and showing me...

What?!?

Looking at Smalltalk, SELF, CLOS and Eiffel I fail to see what you mean...

...in Smalltalk is not a primitive type. Even ints, floats, chars, etc. in Smalltalk are...

...me who has spent his career with Smalltalk and Java and doesn't know a...

Yep, that is how for example .NET, Eiffel, Smalltalk, Lisp and many other languages work.

...std.algorithm.reduce.
I think Scala guys have copied something older than Smalltalk.

Bye,
bearophile

There is the nice old Smalltalk-80 inject:into: method in the Collection class:

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I don't blame Java for Smalltalk. I just don't like ideological constraints. As...

...of what OOP is all about and Smalltalk, right?

There are no free functions in...